Céline Bardet is a lawyer and international criminal investigator specialising in war crimes and international crimes, post-conflict justice, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda. She began her career at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and then at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. She subsequently spent 12 years in the Balkans, where she established and headed a war crimes unit and led the first trial for war rape. She went on to work in Libya, Nigeria and nearly 90 other countries, contributing her expertise on issues of justice and security. A globally recognised expert, she is the author of the book *Sensitive Zones* and the recipient of numerous awards, including the French Republic’s Human Rights Prize (2024), the International Bar Association’s Rule of Law Prize (2023), the UNESCO Outstanding Woman Prize (2019) and the JFD Margaret Digital Woman Prize (2018). Having witnessed the systematic use of rape as a weapon of war and the lack of an adequate response on the ground, she founded the NGO We Are NOT Weapons of War (WWoW) in 2014, dedicated to preventing and combating sexual violence in conflicts and crises. She has developed practical tools such as the secure web application, BackUp, to facilitate the safe reporting, support and access to justice for survivors. BackUp also aims to raise awareness about sexual violence and to collect data to support advocacy work that informs public policy. In 2025, Céline Bardet published her second book, *The Sound of the World Hurts Me a Little Too Much Some Days*, in which she recounts fifteen years of campaigning against war rape and fighting for justice, as well as for survivors.